unusual
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 501 U.S. 957 - Harmelin v. Michigan · 1991Most cited · 4,847 citing opinions
contrary to custom," for until Congress passed the first penal law, there were no "customary" federal punishments either.
How often courts cite the case defining “unusual”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “unusual” — 4,842 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.